Lawyers seeking to recover $175 million for clients of a bankrupt Caribbean offshore bank are asking a U.S. judge to grant those customers the same confidentiality protections a court extended to people claiming clergy sex abuse, Bloomberg News reported yesterday. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn today will weigh the matter when he considers whether the private-client unit of the National Bank of Anguilla can keep its customers’ names secret while it tries to get their money back. The National Bank of Anguilla’s private banking and trust division of filed for chapter 11 protection on Wednesday. It’s asking for permission to investigate its parent, as well as the National Commercial Bank of Anguilla, which took over its banking business, and the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank. A hearing is set for today in Manhattan on the requests for the probes and client confidentiality.
